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You will find this web-published manual different enough from
other U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Manuals that it warrants a welcome
rather than an introduction. Publishing on the web opens a vast
array of resources and offers a variety of media. It also enables
you, the reader, to go as deeply as you like into a topic or to
merely skim its surface. It is a much more active sort of document
than a traditional manual.
Hardcopy manuals have generally been written to be read linearly
from start to finish. It is likely that no two readers will follow
the same path through these manuals. Some will read and ignore
the links, some will click every link pursuing them until they
are satisfied, others will pursue the links until there are no
more links to pursue. Some of you will work with the sample computation
files that have been attached. Others will study the Microsoft®
PowerPoint® slides, a number will replay the audio files. The
links lead to some wonderfully informative animations. In short,
these web-published Procedures Manual offer a portal to more information
about the Corps' business lines than any one person will ever
need. So welcome to the new web-published National Economic Development
(NED) manual series.
Web-publishing is still in its infancy and we hope to grow with it.
You can expect to find some differences in the type and extent of interactivity with
the materials as you move from one manual to the next. You will also notice that not
all of the manual links are active yet. More materials will be added as these manuals
are completed. With your feedback, we hope to eventually find the right formula for all
of these topics, so please tell us what you like and don't like about these manuals by
contacting Susan Durden.
Overview
In this manual series you will eventually find an Overview Manual
for Conducting NED Analysis. That manual will provide an overview to the
NED principle, which articulates a framework used to help determine the
Federal interest in a water resource project. The NED principle articulates
a very specific perspective to be used in valuing project outputs (benefits)
and inputs (costs). Because the NED principle is fundamentally a normative
economic policy, rather than an economic principle, it is often misunderstood.
The Overview will provide a helpful articulation of the NED principle.
Primer
The Primer, when completed, will provide policy and other background materials
that are germane to all of the Corps' business lines. This will include the following:
- Principles & Guidelines planning process
- Planning objectives
- Multiple purpose planning
- Study phase and level of detail
- Institutional setting
- Local sponsor participation
- Plan formulation and the role of economics
- Project management plan
- Basis for Federal involvement
- Regional Economic Development
- Brief summary of risk & uncertainty
- Links to other project delivery team members
- Policy overview
- Multiple-criteria decision analysis
Flood Damage Reduction
The flood damage reduction manual was the first manual completed. At the current
time it serves as a model for future manuals. It begins by considering the elements of
a flood problem at a level suitable for non-hydrologists. The hydroeconomic model used
by the Corps to estimate expected annual damages (EAD) is critical to the NED evaluation
of any flood damage reduction alternatives. Its three input functions and one output
function are considered in some detail. The presentation of this model is conceptual
in nature and it is not pegged to any particular tool used to estimated EAD.
Without condition flood damages issues are considered, followed by a careful
look at how with condition scenarios alter one or more of the inputs to the hydroeconomic
model. Uncertainty that is likely to be encountered in a flood damage reduction study is
the next topic discussed. The unique consideration associated with nonstructural measures
and the benefits are land use changes are considered in the next two sections. The manual
concludes by considering how to use the information to estimate NED benefits for a flood
damage reduction project.
Coastal Storm Damage
To be completed.
Inland Navigation
To be completed.
Deep Draft Navigation
To be completed.
Last Updated:
November 9, 2006
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